Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató